If life were a bowl of cherries...

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come..
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

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1/06/09

1. Sitting in the sun on the phone to S.
2. This webcomic!
3. Surprise visits from friends :D.
4. My teddies being mostly ok... although smelling rather strongly of fabric conditioner and detergent now. :D
5. A lovely boyfriend who made me get on and do things when my brain started going to sleep.

6. Oh and butterscotch angel delight with raspberry jelly :D

31/05/09

1. Finding out I have a chance to sing solo in Ely Cathedral.... :S :D
2. A really very amusing game of DandD where we broke various unwritten rules (don't send the wizards charging in and don't split the party) and still survived.
3. A good band practise... in better shape than I should be by rights so yey! (Some good tunes as well.)
4. Being the 18th Camel.
5. Lunch with my parents and R in the sun, on the backs.

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30/05/09

1. Mending my green jumper which has been on the mending pile for nigh on 4 years now! - took 4 hours as well :P.
2. Managing to mend my green jumper despite some stupid thread count along the lines of 30 stitches an inch!!! (it had laddered in several places - two were straight runs and easy to pick up, one was a rather long section where the entire thing had dropped down up to 9 rows I think. (Also started work on my green scarf but that will take longer as it is very torn and in a lose firefly knit.)
3. Watching 2/3 StarWars (4 and 5) - If you want to see my opinion on the *first* 3 StarWars look here. (The substitutions are pretty obvious!)
4. Daddy liking my spicy potato and vegetable soup - even though I can not, for the life of me, remember what actually went in it.
5. Sorting through my clothes and coming that bit closer to reducing my wardrobe to what I will conceivably wear again - I keep saving things incase I alter them/ use the material/ suddenly find a use for 3 or 4 old and stained but slightly warmer jumpers that are very stretched...

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29/05/09

1. Lovely sunshine on the way home.
2. Watching outnumbered - a lot of the scenarios seeming all to familiar.
3. Fantastic dancing :D
4. Aniseed balls - bought 100g at the w/e and slowly getting through them.
5. Seeing a kid have his high-chair put out on the lawn so he could watch the big cane whilst eating breakfast

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28/05/09

1. Bought my Towersey Ticket!
2. Got to sleep for a few hours in the afternoon.
3. Did oboe :D
4. Fantasitc dancing - mix of silly and just plain pretty!! Oh and the fact that I got to go to the entirity of The Round.
5. Lots of birds and butterflys in the fields on the way to/from work :D ... and poppies and cornflowers. It's pretty.

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